A reliable measurement of postharvest losses for fresh produce is needed to ensure against future losses. The Taguchi loss function was used to quantify quality loss of fresh cucumber after testing different storage combinations.

The wide swath of political actions, including those that renegotiate gender through the appropriation of digital space, tend to be "fragments" of micro-power that do not necessarily add up to making a political agora.

The GRACE 2 Project built on the work of GRACE 1 (Gender Research in Arab Countries into ICTs for Empowerment); the regional scope expanded to include the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region bringing the total number of teams to twenty-one.

This report details the theoretical and programmatic outcomes from projects that were part of Gender and Citizenship in the Information Society (CITIGEN), along with IT for Change, as the principal coordinator of the programme.

In general terms, stress felt by young people relates to primary experiences of emotional deprivation, lack of social networks and family support and life satisfaction; they may have difficulty in controlling their emotions and expressing them in